Short note for methods and properties ???

[alexk]

I was create a little class with property and method.

How can I add a short pop-up "note" to property or method like in original VB.NET methods and properties?

See attachment picture for example.

Thanks.

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[UCM]

FIrst you create a property then in an event, sub, or function, you can reference that property by using:

Me.

 

Try This:

Public Class Form1
   Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

  Private MyStrPropertySTORAGE As String
  Public Property MyStrProperty() As String
     Get
        ' The Get property procedure is called when the value
        ' of a property is retrieved. 
        Return MyStrPropertySTORAGE
     End Get
     Set(ByVal Value As String)
        ' The Set property procedure is called when the value 
        ' of a property is modified. 
        ' The value to be assigned is passed in the argument to Set. 
        MyStrPropertySTORAGE = Value
     End Set
  End Property

  Private MyIntPropertySTORAGE As String
  Public Property MyIntProperty() As String
     Get
        ' The Get property procedure is called when the value
        ' of a property is retrieved. 
        Return MyIntPropertySTORAGE
     End Get
     Set(ByVal Value As String)
        ' The Set property procedure is called when the value 
        ' of a property is modified. 
        ' The value to be assigned is passed in the argument to Set. 
        MyIntPropertySTORAGE = Value
     End Set
  End Property

 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

   Me.MyStrProperty = "Text" ' This is a string property
   Me.MyIntProperty = 1024 ' This is a integer property

 End Sub
End Class

[Robby]

I think that Alex is talking about the tooltip that appears next to a property or method in the dropdown list in the IDE.

[divil]

That is a C# feature, it gets those tooltips from the inline XML documentation that is part of the language spec.

 

There is probably a tool that lets you do the same from VB.NET, but I don't know of one.

[alexk]

Yes, exactly. I'm talking about the tooltip that appears next to a method in the dropdown list in the IDE.

Can anyone HELP me?!

[divil]

Did you miss my post?

[TechnoTone]

Does anyone know how to do this in VB.NET???

 

Just to reiterate, I want to assign a description to each of the properties/methods of my class so that when you're using the IDE you get a tooltip with the description, just like the existing .NET objects.

 

Additionally, how can this be extended to include descriptions for method parameters too?

[Cywizz]

URL posted by Wyrd in the VB.Net form a couple of days ago:

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvssamp/html/vbcs_xmlcomments.asp?frame=true

 

(edit)

mmmm I mean FORUM

[TechnoTone]

Thanks.

 

I thought I remembered seeing something along these lines a few days ago but I douldn't find it.

 

I even remembered that it had the word "ToolTip" in the title but when I searched I couldn't find it. Turns out it was "ToolTips" with an "s".... DOH, so close.